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COOL: kernel support for object-oriented environments

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Laurence MosseriAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 25, Issue 10

Pages 269 - 275

https://doi.org/10.1145/97946.97978

Published: 01 September 1990 Publication History

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The Chorus Object-Oriented Layer (COOL) is an extension of the facilities provided by the Chorus distributed operating system with additional functionality for the support of object-oriented environments. This functionality is realized by a layer built on top of the Chorus V3 Nucleus, which extends the Chorus interface with generic functions for object management: creation, deletion, storage, remote invocation and migration. One major goal of this approach was to explore the feasibility of general object management at the kernel level, with support of multiple object models at a higher level. We present the implementation of COOL and a first evaluation of this approach with a C++ environment using the COOL mechanisms.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 25, Issue 10

Oct. 1990

320 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/97946

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OOPSLA/ECOOP '90: Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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